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To: bushwon

This inane Fukishima radiation panic amuses me to no end. There is about 352,670,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water in the world’s oceans. Let’s conservatively just take the water attributed to the Pacific ocean. That is 187,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons. About 300,000 tons, or 72,000,000 gallons, of contaminated water (most of it very low level radioactive) were released by Fukushima. If you do the math, that is one part in 2.6 billion. In reality, it is much much smaller than that, because only a tiny amount of radioactive particles were in that water.


50 posted on 03/09/2014 7:37:24 PM PDT by Scutter
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To: Scutter

You may be amused, but if you live on the beach and eat a lot of fish, ocean life, etc. you might be more concerned.

Is the issue of mercury poisoning in fish inane too? I don’t know why it couldn’t be potentially similar. I am not amused.


61 posted on 03/09/2014 8:00:23 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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